Lawmakers grilled former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo regarding his handling of controversial COVID-era nursing home policies, demanding he apologize to families who lost loved ones during the coronavirus pandemic. Cuomo testified before the House select committee investigating coronavirus on Tuesday regarding elderly deaths after patients were being admitted into nursing homes without COVID-19 testing....
NEWFIELDS, N.H. — After six months of contests, the final states hold primaries in the 2024 election cycle as voters in Delaware, New Hampshire and Rhode Island head to the polls on Tuesday. And grabbing the most attention, the competitive and combustible Republican and Democrat gubernatorial primaries in New Hampshire in the race to succeed...
Delaware State Sen. Sarah McBride could become the first trans person elected to Congress after she won a primary Tuesday night. McBride ran virtually unopposed as the only candidate in the primary to have raised any funds, and she had the backing of Delaware Sens. Chris Coons and Tom Carper and Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester,...
President Biden and Senate Democrats are racing to confirm more judicial nominees than former President Donald Trump did while in office. However, they face a difficult schedule to get it done, with several time-sensitive pieces of legislation due this fall and an entire month out of session in October. Prior to the August break, Senate...
The pundits predict the presidential election will be close. So should people prepare for contingencies? There’s truly only one contingency for this scenario. It’s called a contingent election. What’s that? Don’t feel badly if you’ve never heard of a contingent election. The term is not even mentioned in the Constitution. However, Article II, Section 3...
On Tuesday, September 10, former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo will be testifying publicly before Congress for the first time regarding his COVID-19 nursing home policies and the March 25, 2020, directive that brought in over 9,000 coronavirus patients into care facilities across the state. Many of us will be very interested in the subcommittee’s...
Senate Republicans have a feeling that the battle to succeed Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is just beginning and that more contenders will make last-minute bids for the role after the general election in November. One name that continues to be tossed around is that of Steve Daines, R-Mont., head of the National Republican Senatorial Committee...
No proof? No vote. As in, proof of citizenship. House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., convened a conference call Wednesday with House GOPers, just days before the House returns to session for the first time since late July. Johnson advocated that the House adopt an interim spending bill running into the first quarter of next year...
The First Continental Congress, a brazen show of both defiance and union by the American colonies on the road to revolution, met on this day in history, Sept. 5, 1774. It was the first time many of the transformative figures in human history known as the Founding Fathers would meet. John Adams, Samuel Adams, Patrick...
House lawmakers subpoenaed Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday over his alleged refusal to testify about the Biden administration’s deadly 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan. The House Foreign Affairs Committee said Blinken must appear before the committee on Sept. 19 or face contempt charges, the committee said in a letter written by Republican Chairman Michael...
